Modern noir moved from untrustworthy narration to doubts about fictional worldhood

Evidence

Nolan’s films have a coolly obsessive quality, in which a number of repeating elements – a traumatised hero and his antagonist; a dead woman; a plot involving manipulation and dissimulation – are reshuffled. These film noir tropes are then further scrambled in the manner of a certain kind of neo-noir. … There’s a shift from the epistemological problems posed by unreliable narrators to a more general ontological indeterminacy, in which the nature of the whole fictional world is put into doubt. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 516

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Deconstructive narrative moves from doubting one metaphor to doubting language itself — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 534

Broader Connections

• Deconstructive narrative moves from doubting one metaphor to doubting language itself #expands (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 534